I got a new ASUS Transformer Notebook. It seems to have all the best attributes of a laptop and a tablet. The keyboard is detachable. You can use touch screen, control pad, USB mouse or keyboard.
It has a solid state hard drive that is blazing fast. But what is really amazing is that it can take a tiny Micro SD card, no bigger than your thumbnail. I have used them in tablets, cameras, phones, etc, but the latest Micro SDXC, has now doubled the speed and I have 128 gigs of storage available for instant access.
I remember when I got a PC that had 100 MEG memory, and thought at the time that would be all I'd ever need.

I have HP. Same principle , with windows 8. I3 processor.

is it running windows...or? android?

I'm running Windows 8.1. It has already made my job a lot easier!

I remember my first PC XT. It had 640KB memory and a 20MB hardrive. And it was state of the art at the time in 1985.

Those new tablets with touch screen are amazing for vArranger
Now dreaming on Surface Pro 3

I've been using a Lenovo S10 laptop for years running Win XP for
Mp3, Txt, files....never had a problem 10' display, .....
also had a few android tablets with touch screen...but in no way do they compare to the navigational ease of use of a laptop IMO in live play. The keyboard/finger mouse pad is a must to navigate.

Well you can do it either way, or both ways, with this one. The keyboard is better than the one on my old Acer Inspire, plus you can use the touch screen if it's easier for some things, either with the keyboard attached or unattached.
I am still in process of customizing everything to suit my needs, which includes deleting a lot of programs and apps that were installed when I got it.
It even came with MS Office 13 installed. I've been using Open Office for a few years, but this newer version of MS Office is really improved over some of the old versions. Plus, it finally reads ODT files, so I don't have to convert anything I did using that format in Open Office.
I have more than 4,000 files on my Micro SD drive, and have only used a small portion of it. This includes lyrics, MP3s, midi files, new styles to try when I get a chance, and backups for my current Korg arranger and also for, Yamaha, Ketron and Roland keyboards (ya never know, right?). All the backups include registrations, lyrics, etc.
For example I could go see Gary in Florida this winter and just plug into USB and play. Or Diki's Roland BK9, or AJ's Audya.
My original point of the thread is that all this information and MUCH more can fit on a little drive smaller than a quarter.

You guys got into computers after they had advanced quite a bit. My first, a Commodore 64 was all I used for more than 5 years, producing newspaper columns and magazine articles every day, the modem was horribly slow, 300 baud (I could type faster than that.), all the programs were on 5-1/4-inch floppy disks, and including the printer, that rig cost me about $600 back then.

For the music biz, I still use that 9-inch Acer Aspire, under $200, I just updated the memory, and it runs like greased lightning. Guess I'll stick with this dark ages stuff and piss the money away on sunshine and margarettas this winter.

Cheers,

Gary

Gary, as you know, the LT I'm replacing is just like yours. If you want a backup let me know!